Comments on: Showing the post password form for excerpts in WordPress

By: cmegown

cmegown — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:42:31 +0000

Is there a better way to do this now with v3.3.1? I tried this, and it ends up spitting out two password forms: one that is generated by the code above, and one that is generated by default. And yes, I am using the_excerpt.

Thanks, and I hope to hear from you folks soon.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:34:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing Justin.
This is just what I need!!
I will try this on my blog.

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:32:12 +0000

Just what I needed, thanks!

By: Modifying Wordpress Password Protected Pages With Teaser

Modifying Wordpress Password Protected Pages With Teaser — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:52:50 +0000

[...] to add the code to display the excerpt. I tracked down the code for adding a custom filter to modify the password protected text, and decided that this was the best way to be able to extract and display the custom excerpt as a [...]

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:52:33 +0000

I don’t suppose anyone knows how to allow the excerpt to show on a protected post? Like a teazer…

By: Samuel Secreto

Samuel Secreto — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:13:09 +0000

This is exacly watch I was watching to do in my blog,I was relly neeed of this feature!
Thanks a lot and congratulations for your excellent blog!

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:38:54 +0000

I’m sorry Justin, I have misunderstood your post!

By: J Mehmett

J Mehmett — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:37:45 +0000

Justin, I don’t know, why its not save to post a code in the comments area. It goes to the moderation queue or it gets eaten by Akismet

Back to the comment, it was nothing but a possibility of replacing the default text with a friendly one in the excerpt instead of showing the login form.

function excerpt_protected( $content ) {
	if ( post_password_required() )
		$content = "Hey, this is a password protected post, the admins of this blog are smart enough to check their loyal fans, so they decided to protect some certain content for the sake of goodness.";

	return $content;
}

The above code replaces the default:

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

…with:

Hey, this is a password protected post, the admins of this blog are smart enough to check their loyal fans, so they decided to protect some certain content for the sake of goodness.

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:06:49 +0000

J Mehmett — Sorry. Your comment is long gone now. You can try posting it again if you want. Danny — Nope, this was all done on WordPress 2.8. I'm sure it's probably the same on 2.7. Remember, this deals with excerpts only (just in case you are using the full post).

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:41:38 +0000

Hey Justin, is this code referred to WordPress 2.7? I ask you because in 2.8 it works without editing functions.php… Thanks in advance!